Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, Inc. has taken what could be at mildly best described as an interesting move by filing patents for many of the key aspects of the current existing Bitcoin marketplace. The number of filings by Coinbase with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) come to nine and include: Hot wallet for ...

Apple has taken further steps to defend itself against malicious actors targeting iOS apps by reminding developers to use legitimate copies of its development tool Xcode. According to reports, Apple sent a letter out to its registered developers urging them to validate their version of Xcode and ensure they only download new versions from Apple. ...

The fad of daily deals sites is slowly grinding to an end with the leader of the pack, Groupon, Inc., announcing Tuesday that they are laying off 1,100 people and closing up shop in seven territories. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, the “restructure” of Groupon isn’t coming cheaply either, with the ...

The Australian banking industry has decided to declare war on local Bitcoin companies by cutting their bank accounts off in what could be a fatal blow for the nascent industry in the country. According to reports both the Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd. (CBA) have sent letters of closure ...

Sadly no free Bitcoin mining toasters quite yet, but venture capital funded Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. has finally brought its first product to market in the form of a “Bitcoin Computer.” The 21 Bitcoin Computer is reported to be a small, bare bones, Linux-based piece of hardware in which the Bitcoin protocol is a feature ...

One of the best, or worst sites on the internet, depending on your personal views, has changed hands with news that 4chan owner Christopher “Moot” Poole has sold the site to the founder of 2channel. Founded in October 2003, 4chan originally started as an anonymous image-sharing board primarily focused on Japanese culture, and quickly grew ...

The next big thing from Apple looks more and more like it will be an electric vehicle, with a report Monday that the tech giant has committed to bringing it to market. According to The Wall Street Journal the project, dubbed internally at Apple as “Project Titan”, has been given a “committed project” status by ...

Peace for our time may have been the fateful words of Neville Chamberlain in 1938 after returning from the Munich Conference, but the Governments of the U.S. and China think they may be smarter with news over the weekend that they are working on a new cyber treaty. The dalliance in digital detente would see ...

A malicious program dubbed XcodeGhost has hit apps in Apple’s App Store, including well known applications including the popular messaging platform WeChat. Apple confirmed news of the malware Sunday and stated that it was removing malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in what Reuters refers to as the “first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet.” ...

Facebook, Inc. wants a slice of the attention Twitter, Inc. gets from journalists with a new service that makes content discovery on the uber-social network far more accessible. Called Facebook Signal, the new service allows journalists, writers, bloggers, whatever badge they apply to themselves, to search through Facebook to surface relevant trends, photos, videos, and ...